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BBC Comedy is celebrating a successful festive season showcasing a range of popular and critically acclaimed content from the Ghosts special, Mrs Brown’s Boys and Inside No.9 to The Detectorists, Bad Education, Motherland, Two Doors Down and The Cleaner.
Kate Phillips, Director of Unscripted, has announced that Kalpna Patel-Knight will take on the newly created Head of Entertainment commissioning role following an internal restructure of BBC Television’s senior leadership team, which saw the recent closure of the Director of Entertainment role.
Submissions have been invited from today by the BBC for short form comedies. Here is what they say:
Short-form is a place for both new and established talent - writers, performers, producers, directors and companies - to experiment, develop and showcase exciting new worlds and memorable comedy characters. This is where you can take your first steps into development with BBC Comedy, and work with us on characters and ideas that can potentially grow into longform.
BBC Studios has announced two new comedy Contract Writers, Cameron Loxdale and Jade Gebbie to work across comedy productions for BBC Studios Audio, including the flagship Radio 4 topical shows The Now Show, The News Quiz and Dead Ringers.
This article by BBC Director-General Tim Davie first appeared in the Daily Telegraph but has now been released by the BBC Press Office.
Comedy and Drama writer Tiwa Lade is this year’s recipient of the Felix Dexter Bursary scheme.
The six-month bursary, run by BBC’s Comedy Association is awarded to aspiring comedy writers, with the aim of making a positive intervention to address an under-representation of black, Asian and ethnic minority professionals in comedy production in broadcasting.
Entries are now open for two BBC Audio Drama Awards for scriptwriting, run annually and administered by the Society of Authors.
North East Comedy Hot House is teaming up with Tiger Aspect to uncover and help train the best development and producing talent in the region. Could this be you?
Shane Allen, Director, BBC Comedy Commissioning, has announced Hannah Rose as Assistant Commissioner. Based in Salford, Hannah will be working with talent in the North on new and existing titles.
BBC Comedy has appointed I May Destroy You producer Tanya Qureshi as Commissioning Editor. Qureshi will be responsible for a slate of programmes as well as developing her own portfolio of new shows.
Tanya started her career in commissioning at UKTV, primarily focused on scripted comedy across Dave and Gold. She acted as executive producer on sitcoms Undercover, The Rebel, Henry IX and all series of the critically acclaimed Crackanory.
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